I'm trying to upload an image via the Django admin and then view that image either in a page on the frontend or just via a URL.
Note this is all on my local machine.
My settings are as follows:
MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/dan/mysite/media/'
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
I have set the upload_to parameter to 'images' and the file has been correctly uploaded to the directory:
'/home/dan/mysite/media/images/myimage.png'
However, when I try to access the image at the following URL:
http://127.0.0.1:8000/media/images/myimage.png
I get a 404 error.
Do I need to setup specific URLconf patters for uploaded media?
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks.
Answer
UPDATE for Django >= 1.7
Per Django 2.1 documentation: Serving files uploaded by a user during development
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
urlpatterns = patterns('',
# ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...
) + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
You no longer need if settings.DEBUG as Django will handle ensuring this is only used in Debug mode.
ORIGINAL answer for Django <= 1.6
Try putting this into your urls.py
from django.conf import settings
# ... your normal urlpatterns here
if settings.DEBUG:
# static files (images, css, javascript, etc.)
urlpatterns += patterns('',
(r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {
'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}))
With this you can serve the static media from Django when DEBUG = True (when you run on local computer) but you can let your web server configuration serve static media when you go to production and DEBUG = False